Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
Bob Cousy
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bob Cousy
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: August 9
Actor
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Manhattan borough
New York City
Robert Joseph Cousy
Issue
Basketball
Wasn
Issues
Melting
Race
Races
Family
Pot
Culture
Cultures
French
More quotes by Bob Cousy
Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6'-6 and built like a bulldog.
Bob Cousy
We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.
Bob Cousy
The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.
Bob Cousy
I dribbled by the hour with my left hand when I was young. I didn't have full control, but I got so I could move the ball back and forth from one hand to the other without breaking the cadence of my dribble. I wasn't dribbling behind my back or setting up any trick stuff, but I was laying the groundwork for it.
Bob Cousy
These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.
Bob Cousy
We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
Bob Cousy
The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.
Bob Cousy
You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.
Bob Cousy
There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
Bob Cousy
I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
Bob Cousy
I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.
Bob Cousy
Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.
Bob Cousy
Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.
Bob Cousy
Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all in terms of timing and being at the right place at the right moment-even though, for the last 30 years, I was told I was born 20 years too soon, for obvious reasons.
Bob Cousy
We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.
Bob Cousy
It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball.
Bob Cousy
I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face.
Bob Cousy
We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.
Bob Cousy
My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.
Bob Cousy
Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.
Bob Cousy
